Interesting turn of events, and quite frankly, I'm glad to see Filoni involved.

Perhaps an older Ahsoka Tano will appear in this series.

I personally hope they try to take a more series tone with the series, but some how the doubt of that eats away more than the Jar Jar Binks episodes of Clone Wars ever could. The Disney ownership is giving us new movies, the partnership with EA will give us new games; the next couple of years will determine whether or not we actually wanted any of it.

This annoys me. But not enough to hamper my enjoyment of the last four episodes. Even if they also screwed up rank plaques and basically made it clear they're just details on the character models and are never chosen to actually signify relative importance of characters to each other.

Have to say, if you ignore O'Brien (who never actually got an official rank after they decided the one episode where he was addressed as "lieutenant" was a mistake and that he was in fact a noncom--even DS9 doesn't help much beyond establishing that he has a minimum rank of "chief petty officer," that he is probably "senior chief petty officer," and that he may be "master chief petty officer"--or his dad may have been exaggerating ), Star Trek is at least consistent in rank insignia.

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Kousoku Senkan MoffgouMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
11-01-17 07:05 PM
EDT (US)
994 / 1043

Because it matters in Trek.

Star Wars has never given a whit, because you either have the Mildly Military Rebellion where independence and going off on your own always pays off (unless it's in opposition the main character), or the Empire where there are rank structures, but also political correctness is a factor and the whole point to the rank pips was just to tell the viewer "is this person important" and told the script-writer, "should this person have a name"? (They obviously didn't count on Wookieepedia naming every last frigging Stormtrooper and giving them a secret love life.)

I mean, even I have to stretch Imperial insignia to make something that even roughly equates to the US/Starfleet/British standards. And the Rebels are worse, with their single flag/general rank.

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain

Kousoku Senkan MoffgouMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
11-02-17 07:45 PM
EDT (US)
997 / 1043

You have room in your sig. Do what must be done, Lord Vader. Do not hesitate...

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain

Kousoku Senkan MoffgouMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
11-17-17 06:22 AM
EDT (US)
1001 / 1043

Halfway through the final season, now. I really thought they were starting to nerf Thrawn (well, more in the "inept subordinates who don't follow orders" stuff)... but he pulled through. Seems he learned from the last time that he apparently can't trust military personnel in an authoritarian dictatorship to understand "following orders."

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain

Kousoku Senkan MoffgouMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
02-20-18 09:06 PM
EDT (US)
1004 / 1043

Well, Imperial Spalko is right... Vanessa Marshall has a very lovely voice.

Possible Dreadnought-class in the trailer. Is anyone watching or am I shouting into the void like a silly Pony?

EDIT: SPOILERS AHOY************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Spoilers between the animu.Oof. Ian McDiarmid must've been reading his lines over the phone. No one stopped to correct him from "Ash-okah" to "Ah-soakah"

Also, Force-based time travel = bleh. But... at least there's only one Delorean. And it seems like it's good and blowed up. And Ahsoka lives... for now.************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

EDIT: Don't want to say too much, because I don't think Moff has been able to catch it yet.

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain

"Madam, for that boy... there is nothing I would not do."-So, I get we're trying to show Hondo developed some selflessness... but, uh, why. And that phrasing. Oof.

Also, how did you all get off Lothal? The temple was vaporized, the Empire threw a parade to celebrate Kanan's death. How did you get out of the blockade?

Apparently maneuvering jets do not require power. Good to know.

Ezra's beastmaster routine was... okay. Not a huge fan of the trope, personally... though once again Stormtroopers get slaughtered by furry creatures.

And we end on "WE MUST PUSH THE EMPIRE OFF LOTHAL." You don't know how to cut your losses. You just captured a governor and wiped out her task force. And Rukh got the standard Disney villain death... so he might be back.

****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************MOFF HAS FOUND FINALE

Sweet intro with Ezra talking to a picture of his parentsAND THEN FEED THE GOVERNOR TO THE WOLVES IF SHE DOESN'T COMPLY BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Neat action scene... and the one Imperial officer is clearly just Jim Cummings doing a toned-down Hondo. Which amuses me.

...Wait, you're going to launch the dome into space and then blow it up? With everyone on board?

And Thrawn is going to bombard city now that Ezra nicely put all of the Imperial troops in the secure base. NICE TOUCH, though, with the Palpatine music.

Those turbolasers were not very impressive, though.

PALPY RETURNS!

Soooo goooooood to hear McDiarmid's voice.

Eww, Hera just implied that Hondo and Melch (the Ugnaught) are boning.

Palpatine's outfit and demeanor are very Classic BSG Count Iblis. And I love it. He even looks kinda like Patrick McNee.

And there's the first death... granted, it's just Melch.

...I think Zeb just killed himself to take out Rukh.

Gregor's down.

God, Ezra's parents are purple. It's animesque. In a bad way.

Poor Palpy. He gets the temptation route to work on one Jedi and thinks it'll always work.

Ooooh. Force pikes have some new tricks. I think they took the Force part too literally.

Ah, Zeb and Rukh live.

Wait. Thrawn just ordered a full-scale bombardment of the city... but then the dorsal turrets swing up.

Rukh got cooked. So at least now he can't murder Thrawn.

...Oh, apparenly Melch survived. It was just a flesh wound. But the clone dies.

There's still a lot of screen time left for this. And Ezra just stormed the Chimaera's bridge.

Is this supposed--yep, this is post-Endor. Okay, that at least justifies reconstruction.

Zeb and Kallus survive, huh. Oh... some... overtones there. <_<

Rex and Hera confirmed for Endor... and Hera had a very human-looking baby. Jacen. And confirmed for Kanan's son. Meaning... well... >_>

...OH SHIT IT'S PAUL MUAD'DIB--oh, just Ahsoka. Dammit. But now she's buggered off looking for Ezra with Sabine, so at least they're not an issue.

I know people want me to be mad over Thrawn, but I never expected him to survive. It would require too much of a downer ending. Still, good series.****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************SPOILERS END

Good show. I may have to reevaluate TCW, since I viewed through the lens of an intruder into the EU. Now that the canon was just reset... I couldn't take issue with Rebels, and it would be fair to do so for TCW.

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain

Gen_Rhys_DallowsJedi Knight

posted
03-08-18 11:35 AM
EDT (US)
1011 / 1043

Filoni outright says in an interview that Thrawn and Ezra survive. Probably Pelleaon too, since the whales apparently snatched the whole fleet.

Off to the Unknown Regions 'Ideas for Later/Convenient New Threat/Spare Character Storage' file cabinet.

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I get the feeling that Luke only went semi-Kreia after his nephew problems.

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ShifterClone Trooper

posted
03-09-18 01:05 PM
EDT (US)
1017 / 1043

Quoted from Moff:

S'okay. Kinda odd that she basically sat on her hands for five years, but maybe that's how long it took her to get off Malachor.

Well, Ahsoka might not have sat on her hands for five years, Moff.

We just haven't heard the stories about what she did during that time yet.

I mean she could've been on Malachor all that time, but just because she wasn't present during the events of the original trilogy doesn't mean she wasn't doing something somewhere else.

Not really. I mean, I appreciated canon finally acknowledging the long-established EU notion that the Jedi and Sith were not the sole Force-users, but I didn't really expect canon to endorse that the vaunted Jedi are not infallible saints who may be more trouble than they're worth. *sigh* I need to replay KotOR2 some time, relish Kreia pointing out everything Star Wars does wrong.

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Flying AceClone Trooper
(id: Lord Vader672)

posted
03-09-18 04:30 PM
EDT (US)
1020 / 1043

Meh. Stick everyone in a dark hallway and let Vader loose on them

What was YOUR ME3 ending: Merge with Helios, Illuminati, or Tracer Tong?"I feel like I just watched Dwayne Johnson beat a small disabled child. Except the disabled child is really an infant clone of Hitler. It's so painful to watch...but so glorious." - Cheapy"The Rebels only have one rank: traitor." - Eothain